1. Insta!rec: Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name. Magnificently cute supernatural webcomic with fun characters, great art, an incredibly sweet burgeoning friendship between the title character and the narrator (who is a KIND-HEARTED ZOMBIE, OMG), and storylines that are not only amusing, but intriguing.

2. Bought Richard Siken's Crush. I'll let you all ( Read more... )

Before we get to the sex, I have a funny story to tell you guys. I think I first encountered fanpoetry about spring of 2008. Needless to say, I was completely blown away that someone - more than one person! - had the talent to actually write fanfiction in poetic form. Wouldn't that be cool if I could do that? I wondered, and then immediately ( Read more... )

gid_hanasheh!

Yeah, I love it a lot.

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ICE BOUND
Walter BergenSky's gray sheet spreads icy rain ( Read more... )

When you see this, post a poem on your journal.Surfaces serve ( Read more... )

This isgetting freaky, my friends.

In other news, Yusef Komunkayaa - HAHA YES I SPELLED HIS NAME RIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN WEEKS - rules my soul, especially with the advent of his most recent volume, Warhorses. Like his earlier Talking Dirty to the Gods - which dealt with divinity and spirituality - this themed collection deals with war, both ( Read more... )

I do not love you except because I love you
Pablo Neruda"I do not love you except because I love you ( Read more... )

Unlike short stories - with which I have severe problems with too little length - I have problems keeping poetry short. It's difficult, you know? On the one hand, I feel like there's more to what I want to say, or even when there isn't, that people won't get it, and on the other hand, I don't want to clutter. I want to write, as Hemingway said, one ( Read more... )

Me at 4AM: OH MY GOD, A PENIS HAS BECOME MY OVERARCHING METAPHOR!

Yeah. It's pretty obvious where my mind has been lately (read: in the gutter. Why is it that every time I write it ends up awash with sexuality?) Oh, and I've been reading a lot of Kay Ryan and Margaret Atwood. Not that it necessarily shows.

AND ROT

Fix'd like a plan on his ( Read more... )

...But I was wrong! Grievously so! To wit: this hilarious Ovid poem, as (rather liberally) translated by Peter Green.

The Amores: Book One, Poem ThreeFair's fair now, Venus. This girl's got me hooked. All I'm asking from her ( Read more... )